What is the CRI and are they omni-directional? I need light to shine down at a table, not up to the ceiling.
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CRI is Color Rendering Index and it refers to how the light makes colors show true or not. The higher the CRI the truer the color is. IE: If you have a red item and place it underneath the sun (CRI 100) it will look red but if you take it indoors under some lower CRI light (50) the item may seem brown or less true to its true red color. OmniDirectional means light shines in multiple directions instead of directional or unidirectional. Think of omni as a light you put in a ceiling fan to give you a spread out light covering a larger area. A directional light would be like a spotlight.
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Bought these for my daughter's chandelier over the dining room table. They work great, put out a lot of light and she loves them!
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I would say that, while it does shine down, it mostly shines out and up. And, does not shine directly down. But, I have it in my kitchen and in a bathroom chandelier and, for the most part, it is fine. If I had to use a percentage I would put it at 70% up and out and 30% down
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Sorry RickyDarts this lamp is more for task lighting. I use mine on a computer desk with the light downward. Sounds like you need more of a spotlight.
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It is a more focused light than most ceiling fans that have 3 bulb pointed at different directions. I wouldn't use it as the only light for a room but over a couch or table it will hit that area and the surrounding. Hope that helps.
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Is it a single-bulb fixture where the bulb won't have a globe or other glass over it? I have it illuminating my hallway and it's actually a bit brighter than I would have imagined, would probably work well over an island counter.
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Dear Kevin, If you were to hold a white piece of paper in front of the lamp at 6" away, it would seem as if it were a spotlight. However, there's no focus arrangement in the reflector geometry or in the lens. The LED chip is simply flat. So, at 12" from the fixture, the light pattern begins to lose shape. These people don't speak English.....They just want people to buy their products. These people told me their 12VDC devices were 120vac. I bought 10 mixed ac and DC fixtures for the boat, and had to take each and every one of them apart to verify the power supply/LED driver module, AND, to get rid of the USELESS pigtail arrangement. The flexible cord connectors all needed to be reworked in my lathe, in order to fit waterproof (SOOW) 14/2 AWG in them without a nightmare splicing. They're cheap, er, inexpensive, and mostly watertight, which is their saving grace.
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I don't know what you mean by CRI. Do you mean Candela or Candle Unit or Lumens? What is CRI?
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The lamp is very bright. However, because you point it in a direction, it would be kind of a weird way to light a whole room (it would be like having the sun in the corner). If that's your goal, I think something like a halogen floor lamp (that bounces light up off the ceiling) would be better. I've used the Atlas lamp for extra reading light when it's behind me, but we put a silver tip bulb in because the bulb itself pointing at you is really bright.
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that is the best spot... in a can light pointing down... a cone shaped bulb like this will only project light in one direction, in a lamp all you'd get is a bright circle on the ceiling, buy cone shaped for ceiling mounts and round bulbs for lamps.. I bought a few of these and the red color stopped working within a few minuets, and actually burned part of the circuit board assay (smoked).. The blue and green still work great, but all the shades of light that are generated from combinations of two or three bulbs flicker too much to be used..
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Can't disable. It's what allows the thing to be installed upside down, or whatever. But... I can't hear it at all standing directly under one installed in a fan light. A negative for me though is, the light is very white. I had to check that I actually had a Warm White type (3000K). The lumen output is great but the CRI must be terrible?DES
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I have the same question: I'm looking for the clear base so that the side light shines through. Without the clear base, the light only shines down (not sideways) and so doesn't match the other bulbs in the ceiling fan.
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It's more of a diffused soft light with no direct beam angle. We really like these bulbs!
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Most led fixtures are directional but these have at least a 35 degree angle.
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Stephie, I contacted the manufacturer and it is not. But I went to Lowes and picked up light that were really accent lights instead. I only wanted these for my bedroom near our night stands so we had more room. What I bought worked really great, good light and about 20% of the cost. Try that otherwise the cost is rich.
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surprisingly the light is omni directional and because the light comes from the rim rather than the center there's no hotspot in the middle to avoid with your eyes when you are close to an exposed fixture. Pro: Very nice warm color temperature. It is very close in color temperature to Phillips top of the line bulb (the best on the market for color softness). It has strong build so I expect it yo be more durable than the thin walled glass Cree bulbs. It's got a distinctive shape and that shape is useful too. it lets you screw it out of and into deep sticky sockets with good torque. The light emitted towards the back of the light can escape the front better. The light is more diffusively emitted to it's not as harsh to look right at the bulb as a standard 60 watt bulb (which have a bright center) so A++ for original form and function design Con: Makes a noticeable buzz in regular fixtures. I tried it in several fixtures and it buzzed in all of them. The buzz is a low pitched (120hz?) buzz not the high pitched sound you get out of some of the lousier brands like Insignia. Since it's low pitched it's more noticiable even to senior ears. I could easily hear it from more than ten feet away. Even in high out of the way, non-dimmable fixtures these were the loudest thing in a quiet room. Also the package says you cannot use these in enclosed fixtures!!!! So you can't muffle them with a closed bowl fixture. I bought several of these and they all do it so I'm returning this to amazon as bulbs should not be this loud. I've tried many brands now and the two best brands in general are Cree and Phillips by far, if you like warm color temperatures. But this particular phillips model is not a good one due to the excessive noise.
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None that I am aware of at present. I installed my Full Spectrum Light Bulbs (ALZO 45W CFL) in light sockets without a globe or shade (not my original plan). Used in this fashion they throw a lot of light as long as you aren't too concerned about appearances.One is mounted horizontally and another vertically. Both have been in service since the beginning of this year without any problem.
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Fully adjustable, up and down and tilt. For the price you can't go wrong. Of course you can't adjust the intensity with a dimmer, they're CFLs
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None that I am aware of at present. I installed my Full Spectrum Light Bulbs (ALZO 45W CFL) in light sockets without a globe or shade (not my original plan). Used in this fashion they throw a lot of light as long as you aren't too concerned about appearances. One is mounted horizontally and another vertically. Both have been in service since the beginning of this year without any problem.